Cader Idris, with the Mawddach River
1769 · oil on canvas
Framed: 105.5 x 120.5 x 7 cm (41 9/16 x 47 7/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 89.8 x 105.5 cm (35 3/8 x 41 9/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Richard Wilson
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Richard Wilson was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. A catalogue raisonné of the artist's work compiled by Paul Spencer-Longhurst is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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